Download Psi-Ops:The Mindgate Conspiracy for free

Yup, that's right, a free PC game that's not more than 10 years old.
Of course there's a catch, it's add supported. I haven't tried it myself yet, so i can't comment on how the ads actually work, but i assume they're non-gamebreaking (otherwise it defeats the purpose of having an ad supported game).

PsiOps is a 3rd person action game. If you're waiting for Force Unleashed this might hold you over, as it involves and emphatizes kinetic powers (ie. you can move stuff with your mind). Great title.

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Download Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and enjoy this violent run and gun action game featuring a host of amazing psychic abilities for FREE! This is the entire PC version of the game ad supported to make it a 100% free game.
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Get it here: http://www.fileplanet.com/187537/180000/fileinfo/Psi-Ops:-The-Mindgate-Conspiracy-(Free-Game)
... and if you don't like FilePlanet, give it a few hours, and it'll be all over the P2P networks.

Posted by Styrofoam @ 5:18 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

PC: Huxley officialy announced for N. America and Europe

I guess tank is getting real old, since he forgot this in his otherwise brilliant monday update

Press Release
NHN USA, a subsidiary of NHN, the largest Korean Internet company, announced today that it has secured the rights to publish the long-awaited Huxley in North America and Western Europe. Bringing online gamers everywhere closer to the chance to exercise their fragging skills against thousands of other players in the first twitch-action massively multiplayer online first-person shooting (FPS) game Huxley, the online shooter is slated to arrive on the PC via ijji.com in late 2008.

"Huxley is one of the most anticipated online games currently in development, and we are very excited to bring the triple-A title to Western audiences," said Whon Namkoong, CEO, NHN USA, Inc. "Huxley provides gamers with a unique and compelling experience that gamers everywhere are sure to enjoy. The revolutionary online shooter is a welcome addition to ijji.com, the site where millions of fans can play it later this year."

Huxley is the first massively multiplayer online (MMO) game to combine the twitch-based fast-action gameplay of a first person shooter (FPS) with the cerebral character development of an MMO to deliver an intense and exciting online entertainment experience of a complete MMOFPS. Players will be drawn into the genre-bending game play, riveting cinematic graphics and intricate setting of Huxley, where they will choose between two races, Sapiens or Alternatives and struggle to obtain a powerful energy source while fighting endless battles against the Hybrids, a mysterious third group born of the two races.

Developed by Webzen, Huxley will be released by NHN USA for the PC and be available to play on the publisher's renowned gaming portal ijji.com in late 2008. More information will be available shortly at www.ijji.com.

Source: www.maxconsole.net/
Huxley Official Site: www.huxleygame.com/

I would've posted this as news on the front of 2o2p, but either the news function or Doodie is mad at me ... not sure which
(yes, that was tongue-in-cheek  )

Posted by Styrofoam @ 1:14 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

This is not a complaint ...

... because I love GTA4 as much as the next guy, but there is one thing, I don't understand (actually there's a lot i don't understand, women for starters, but I'll save that for another entry).
Everyone is talking about the power of next-gen consoles (even if it is the current gen), and how fantastic it is, but games for the 7th generation of consoles (current gen) seem to misuse that power in a quest to satisfy Timmie's hunger for better graphics.

As you may have suspected from the first line of this little speech, I'll use GTA4 as an example. This game has recieved almost all 10/10s despite one major flaw, that's been present since the first iteration.
Cars. Yup, there are a lot of them and they do look nice, but R* needs a better algorithm for spawning them. Where ever you go, cars identical to your own dominate the streets. It's a bit weird to go through Bohan in a SuperGT only to spot 5 of them lined up next to each other outside the projects. It pulls you out of the story. Admitted it's no big deal, I just don't understand why devs don't spend processing power fixing stuff like that.
I guess Timmie only care about better gfx, and therefor things like this, pop-ups and pop-ins take a backseat.

Next on styro's blog:
Barbie dress-up clone starring Bernie!!
There's a sub game any warm blooded male gamer can relate to

Posted by Styrofoam @ 11:28 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

That Special Someone ...

WARNING!
Gta 4 spoilers ahead

What a great little mission. So simple, yet so powerful.
As I was heading for Francis Intl to collect the package, the anticipation was almost unbearable. Finally, I'd get my revenge.

... or so I thought. After watching the fmv, I found myself spending several minutes thinking hard on wether or not to kill Darko.
I couldn't decide. On one hand I was thinking live and let live (did that with Vlad), on the other hand I could really understand Niko's motive for killing Darko,. I eventually decided that with all Niko's gone through to get his revenge and the traits he'd shown throughout the story a headshot seemed fitting. I even felt his relief to such a degree, that emptied an entire gun clip into Darko's dead body.

Great gaming moment ... and very disappointing in retrospective.
I was more immersed in the character than any film or game had managed to do before this, I actually felt for this poor slavic bastard, and I couldn't wait for, or imagine, the impact and repercussions this would have on and for Niko. Sadly it has none.
No matter what you choose, Roman will give a little preachy speech, Niko will comment on it, only difference is a few phrases. The entire game is practically one big build-up to this moment. Everything Niko's said and done up untill this point has been with this one goal in mind: Get revenge on Darko. What a wasted opportunity by Rockstar

... at least I had some fun on my way through Liberty City

Posted by Styrofoam @ 1:08 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

GTA 4 reviewed by my granddad.

#¤@@##§GODDAMNGOODFERNUTHINCRAPPYPIECEOFSHIT$$&}#@$¤!!!
That pretty much sums up this pile of dogshit excuse for a game. What the heck does young people see in this anyway??
You drive around doing absolutely nothing, that is when you're not robbing, killing or causing general havoc. I fail to see the difference between this and what I see outside my window every day. Filthy, lazy and unemployed foreigners spending their days sucking on this mighty nation's tit.They should all be driven to the border and given the bum's rush.

So there I was driving in, what's supposedly, a sportscar, only it handles worse than my lorry (incl. tools). I was told this was as close as you could get to real life in a videogame, so I assumed I'd just have to get the car overhauled and serviced before it was useable. Wrong! The so called service I got at this Pay'n'Spray was on par with WalMart on a sunday morning, when only pimple faced, hung over adolescents are on duty. They just splashed a new coat of paint on my car, and when i went back in to complain, they did it again. They should thank their lucky stars, I didn't have Margaret with me. Pay'n'Spray is just another low quality/high prices chain, which only serves on purpose: Drive out honest hardworking men, who actually care about their customers. That of all things, they got right.

As I was leaving the pay'n'Spray (§##&/#@$¤) this cellphone starts ringing. I don't own a cellphone, so what in hell convinced the so called Rockstars, I want one in this game??! At least they put in a feature to ignore it, so I did. Only for the damn thing to ring again 2 minutes later. Ignore. And so things went on for the next 10 mins, untill I finally decided to pick up. "Hello". Whaddaya know, it's another of those lowlife scumbags, that's snuck over the border, and this one openly suggests I should commit some form of crime. This is when i screamed into the microphone: "YOU SNOTNOSED MONKEY LOVER. I'VE STOOD UP FOR YOUR GOAT EATING COUNTRYMEN DURING WORLD WAR II AND THIS IS HOW YOU THANK ME AND 1000S OF OTHER HONEST MEN!!". I guess I hit a sore spot, because he promptly ended  the conversation.

I decided to go look for honest work, as this would show this foreign leech, Niko bellic, the value of sweating for your pay. It wasn't long before I found a scafolding, but as is the norm with young people these days no one was working there. I can only assume they were to drugged up to show up for work, so i took matters into my own hands and climbed up to finish whatever they were building. This is when nostalgia hit me. I remembered the old days, when we used to whistle at skirts. Good times. Of course I love my wife, but I don't see any harm in looking at the bee's knees. So I did. Whistling didn't produce the desired effect though. No dames turned around to let you know they appreciated the compliment, instead a cab on the other side of the street pulled over.
At this point I noticed a strange orange light coming under a bridge behind the cab, and decided to investigate. Low and behold, there was a nice looking shotgun, not as fine as Margaret, but fine enough for me. I decided to call her Greta, and went back my car. Only it wasn't my car. This scumbag I was supposed to be controlling, decides to smash the window on a parked car instead of taking his own sedan. Luckily a police officer was nearby, so I started yelling to him, that I didn't do it, and I had no idea why this scuzzbucket all of sudden started stealing cars. The police officer must've heard me, cause he proceeded to draw his sidearms and shoot this Niko Bellic character. Now normally I don't mind foreigners being shot, they always have it coming anyway, but this officer of the peace was a lousy shot and his shooting was clearly scaring honest men and women in the vicinity. I tried to calm him down over the microphone, but he ignored my pleas, so I had to draw out Greta and shoot him for the sake of the bystanders. I didn't bother to look for a payphone to call 911, since I could already hear an ambulance approaching.

I found my sedan and went to look for work elsewhere, only to be stopped by some woman chattering on her cellphone in the middle of a crossing, despite it being a clear red for her. Once again I had to give these people a piece of my mind, so I stepped out of the car and yelled "GET OUTTA THE WAY LADY!! I'M DRIVING HERE, SOME OF US ACTUALLY HAVE WORK TO DO!!"
This is when I noticed the 5 police cars and machine gun toting  officers, but before i could explain what had happened, I was shot dead.
That seemed like an appropriate lesson to Niko Bellic, and on that note I turned off the machine.

All in all this game seemed realistic as far as foreigners and car services go, I only wish the police were as dilligent as they are in this game, then we wouldn't have all these criminals running around.

Posted by Styrofoam @ 10:51 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments